BBC Radio 2 - Sounds of the 60s - The BBC Studios in 60s London Sounds of the 60s The BBC Studios in 60s London by Bob Stanley View of the auditorium from the control room at the Paris Theatre Brian Matthew makes his way up to central London, to the BBC's Western House, once a week to record Sounds Of The 60s with producer Phil Swern. He sits in the same BBC studio in the same building every week. It wasn't always the case. Recording Saturday Club and Easy Beat in the sixties meant Brian had to flit between BBC buildings. He tries to recall them all over a cup of coffee. "The important thing about Saturday Club, which people can't really understand today, is how different it was, and this is all tied to the physical change in the BBC - which has been enormous. When I first did Saturday Club it was mainly a programme in which we had to make most of the music. We had two hours to fill and could only play eight records - I talked about 'needle time' and the union rules before. So we made our own sessions with bands and groups and singers.

"We had a big studio, an audience studio, in Regent Street called the Paris Theatre (an old converted Cinema). Another little studio called Piccadilly One, a fifty seater studio with a small stage - it's where I did my one session with Eddie Cochran. I was very sad to see that go because it was a very cosy little studio. We had the Playhouse Theatre where I did Easy Beat every week for a couple of years. We had a theatre out in Camden Town, which we no longer possess. We had Reginald Fort's mighty organ stored in a little chapel called the Jubilee. And then of course we were based in our own offices in Bond Street - the Aeolian Hall it was called - where we had not only our offices but a huge concert studio, and a smaller but still quite substantial studio where we did a lot of groups for Saturday Club. "So that was a different pattern entirely, and we had all these facilities, which I'm sad to see gone because I think it's been taken away from us - we don't have the opportunity to make as much ... we still have groups in, but I find them sitting in odd corners of the studio we work in now!

Popping out, putting up pianos and goodness knows what. That element has stayed the same, but it's far and away different from what we had at Saturday Club." BBC Radio 2 Sounds Of The Sixties – Time for a Re-Think | MiAmigo BBC Radio 2 Sounds Of The Sixties – Time for a Re-Think Posted in Radio Soapbox Brian Matthew has been playing the platters that matter on Sounds Of The Sixties on a Saturday morning on Radio 2 since 1990 in his very personal and individual way. However, I listened last Saturday for the first time in a couple of weeks and was bored. Over the past few years SOTS as it is affectionately known has gradually introduced more and more obscure discs into the playlist. So that sometimes now it seems there are more unknowns than hits. But that’s not the only snag. It’s just doesn’t reflect the EXCITEMENT of the Sixties. This was an amazing decade when things were constantly changing at a rapid pace. Sounds Of The Sixties needs a re-fresh. Tune over to Manx Radio on Saturday mornings from 8.30 to 10.30 and experience Carnaby Street.

Chris Williams’ show captures the real atmosphere of the 60s with not only the hit records but original radio commercials, jingles, newsreel soundtracks. You are transported back to the Swinging Sixties every week and it’s EXCITING. So let’s say a big thank you to Brian Matthew and bring in Johnnie Walker for SOTS. JW is also synonymous with the 60s through his swashbuckling days on board Radio Caroline. He would bring another experience to the show and I’m sure would convey his natural love and passion for the decade. Let’s even give Johnnie back his old theme tune – Because They’re Young by Duane Eddy. The golden memories would come flooding back. Also, bring back those PAMS jingles that Tony Blackburn uses so effectively on Pick Of The Pops. What about replaying selected tracks from the original Saturday Club live sessions? What about replaying the wonderful A to Z of The Beatles that was made for the BBC? What about a Beat Club segment playing back to back Mersey Beat classics? How about a Classic Billboard Chart Countdown playing the US Top 10 from that week during a Sixties year?

The relatively new Sounds Of The 80s with presenter Sara Cox and Producer Gary Bones has shown the way by making that decade relevant through new interviews with the original stars. Why not do the same with the 60s – while they are still with us! Give Sounds Of The Seventies to the excellent and knowledgable Mike Read and let Johnnie Walker bring some piratical freshness to the 60s. Phil ‘The Collector’ Swern remains the best possible man to produce the programme but perhaps there has been too much emphasis on the early Sixties of late. JW is associated with the Mid – Sixties so this would give an opportunity to change the flavour. SOTS is still good but could be better. Share this: R2OK ! - the presenters the Radio 2 presenters respected by R2OK ! R2OK ! is currently assembling a Radio 2 Hall of Fame page, but members are invited to submit their own researched biographies of current radio presenters, and depending on the size of the article, to appear on this page or on a dedicated presenter page.

Ed Stewart a special tribute to Ed Stewart, who last broadcast on Radio in April 2005, can be seen at the Stewpot page Brian Matthew Born in Coventry in 1928, Brian's first experience in radio was working for the British Forces Network in Hamburg in 1948 but his love of acting drive him to enrol with RADA in 1949 and he was on stage with the Old Vic Company. Radio beckoned again, however, and in 1952 Brian joined Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, the overseas service of Dutch Radio, producing, doing outside broadcasting and scriptwriting. At the BBC Brian was one of the driving forces that put pop music onto the pre-R2 Light Programme. He started "Saturday Skiffle Club" with Jimmy Grant in 1957 (it eventually dropped the word "Skiffle"), and in 1959 not only produced but also compered a new Sunday morning show called "Easy Beat". Brian even went on to make pop records, "Goodness Gracious Me" with Maureen Evans and "What's It All About" with Peter Murray.

When the Light programme became radio 2 Brian became one of its first DJs, still hosting Saturday Club, and also Thank Your Lucky Stars and Late Night Extra, but he is probably best known for presenting the long-running Round Midnight programme which won the 1987 Pulitzer Publishing Award. Brian Matthew has presented Sounds of the Sixties since April 1990. The show won a Gold Sony Radio Award in 1996 and in the same year Brian received a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Outstanding Contribution to Radio. John Wright, 22 August 2005 Sheridan Morley Author, journalist and broadcaster Sheridan Morley, who died 16 Feb 2007, presented Melodies For You during 2003 - 2006, having previously presented the Radio 2 Arts Programme for 14 years. His last Melodies For You was broadcast 17 Dec 2006 and his departure was sudden, possibly due to illness and/or depression which he had suffered from.

During the mid-60s Sheridan was a newscaster, reporter and scriptwriter for Independent Television News, then joined the BBC in 1967 to present the television show Late Night Line-Up on BBC 2, until 1975. He was also a regular presenter of Kaleidoscope on BBC Radio 4 and on Meridian for BBC World Service radio, and continued to present shows on BBC television. In 1989 Sheridan was the BP Arts Journalist Of The Year. Other contributions to BBC broadcasting include Deputy Features Editor and Arts Diarist. Sheridan also worked for Punch magazine as its Arts Editor and Drama Critic and for The Times newspaper as TV critic. He wrote for other newspapers including The Sunday Telegraph, The London Evening Standard and Playbill (New York) and he was at some time the London drama critic for the International Herald Tribune and for The Spectator. Sheridan's own publications included: A Talent To Amuse - The Life Of Noel Coward, The Stephen Sondheim Songbook, The Noel Coward Diaries, The Theatregoers Quiz Book and his autobiography Asking for Trouble (2003).

John Wright, 23 August 2005 Richard Baker Richard Baker began broadcasting for the BBC in 1950. He introduced the Last Night of the Proms for 32 years and has often compered the New Year Concert from Vienna. Richard read BBC television news for 28 years, hosted Start The Week on BBC Radio 4 for 17 years and has often commentated on the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. Richard presented Melodies For You for on BBC Radio 2 for several years and became the presenter of Radio 2's Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2003 following the death of Alan Keith. The final Your Hundred Best Tunes was broadcast on 21 January 2007. Richard has also presented regular weekly programmes on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, the latter including These You Have Loved and Baker's Dozen. Richard is also well known for his appearances on BBC 2's Face The Music. Richard Baker received the Newscaster of the Year award on three occasions, and in 1984 was the Variety Club's Radio Personality of the Year. In 1979, he was awarded the OBE for services to broadcasting.

Elaine Paige Radio Rewind - BBC Radio 2 History - Light Programme Music Light Programme Music Music While You Work (1940-1967) this half-hour show featured a different band playing a non-stop medley of popular tunes. Launched during the war, it could be heard on the Light weekdays at 10.30am and again at 3.45pm. The lovely theme tune was by Eric Coates and titled Calling All Workers. The show format was resurrected briefly under the title Music All The Way weekday afternoons on Radio 2 1984-85. Resident bands included Ralph Elman And His Bohemian Players, Bernard Monshin And His Rio Tango Band, Michaeloff & His Orchestra, Lionel Falkman And His Apache Band and Troise And His Banjoliers. Oddly these names did not seem to exist outside the BBC. Two-Way Family Favourites (1945-1984) was a record request programme designed to link families at home in the UK with British forces posted overseas in West Germany and further afield.

The half - hour Tuesday evening show was expanded in 1960 to a longer 90 minute Sunday show with a radio announcer telephone link from the linked BFPO Country. It was presented amongst others by Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Michael Aspel, Sarah Kennedy and finally Jean Challis. In the 1950's and early 1960's Family Favourites was one of the few BBC radio programmes devoted exclusively to records, so its audience was in consequence huge, going far beyond the audience at which it was aimed. It offered the 'real thing', the popular records themselves which by the late 1950s were what people wanted to hear, as against versions of the songs being played live in a studio in London. Theme - With A Song In My Heart by Andre Kostelanetz. Housewives' Choice (1946-1967) was aired 9.00 am on weekday mornings. Record requests and dedications were played for the nation's housewives who were left at home while their husbands were at work. The creator and producer was Pat Osborne. The first presenter on Monday, March 4th 1946 was Robert Macdermot.

The first record played was 'Greensleeves' by the Hall Symphony Orchestra. Early presenters on a fortnightly rota were Neal Arden, Roy Rich, Franklyn Engleman and Brian Mickey. Guest presenters included Sam Costa, Kenneth Horne and Bob Danvers Walker. Entertainer and regular compere George Elrick (left) heard singing here was voted top D.J. seven times. The famous theme tune was In a Party Mood by The West End Celebrity Orchestra. Three of the most popular requested discs according to the BBC were 1. Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole) 2. Stranger In Paradise (Tony Bennett) 3. Welcome To My World (Jim Reeves). The show was renamed Family Choice with the launch of Radio 2 in 1967. Kenneth Horne read listeners request during April 1964. It was during the war that, teamed with Richard Murdoch, Much Binding in the Marsh, took shape. During the late fifties and sixties, Ken wrote and took part in Beyond Our Ken and Round The Horne as well as guest presenting Housewives' Choice.

Blackpool_Night (1948-1963) during summer months this programme showcased talent appearing at the famous British seaside resort. This audio clip features Morecambe and Wise. Record Roundabout (1948-1977) Bandleader Jack Jackson's shows included recorded comedy clips interspersed with music of the day. He went on to broadcast on Radio 2 from 1971 to 1977. Jackson's lightning cutting between comedy extracts and music has been described as an inspiration to succeeding generations of disc jockeys like Kenny Everett who have used advanced production techniques to 'mix' music, speech and sound. Billy Cotton The Billy Cotton Band Show (1949-1968) was another popular Sunday afternoon radio programme. Band leader Billy Cotton started each show with the cry Wakey, Wakey! , followed by the band s signature tune Somebody Stole My Gal . Alan Breeze sang (and sometimes slaughtered) the hits of the day. Chapel In The Valley (1949-1969) A half-hour religious music programme not all it seemed.

Introduced by Sandy McPherson, the chapel was not in a valley but in Hoxton, North London where the BBC theatre organ was kept. Organist "Mr Drewett" was actually Charles Smart, and vocalist "Mr Edwards" was really English bass Harvey Alan. Uncle Mac Children's Favourites (1954-1967) This Saturday morning show played record requests from children of all ages. The signature tune was Puffin' Billy by Edward White. Regular presenters included Eductating Archie's Peter Brough in the 1950's and Children's Hour presenter 'Uncle Mac' (Derek McCulloch). A popular record request was Trains by Reginald Gardiner . The show was renamed Junior Choice with the launch of Radio 2 in 1967.

Sing_It_Again (1949-1971) 'At the rate of a song a minute, a group of top-line singers combines to bring a pattern of non-stop music, featuring tunes of yesterday and today that, it is hoped, will please all tastes.' This sing along show was heard on Sunday afternoons and included popular songs re-sung by Clinton Ford, Vince Hill, Rose Brennan, The Ronnie Price Quartet and many other session singers. Saturday Club (1958-1969) followed on from the success of the short-lived 1957 series Skiffle Club. Brian Matthew was the compere of this two hour 'experimental teenage music show'. He chatted with guest artistes in the studio and introduced their live performances often before they had established themselves as recording stars. Almost every pop star in Britain appeared on the programme which was always broadcast live. Keith Skues took over on the first Radio 1 show 1 in 1967 and although the show completed 500 editions on 4 May 1968 it was axed on 18 January 1969.

Sing Something Simple (1959 - 2001) featured the most popular melodies of the last 70 years, performed by The Cliff Adams Singers (four female, 12 male), accompanied by Jack Emblow and the music director. The show was broadcast on Sunday evenings and earned itself the title of longest-running continuous music programme in the world. By 1979 Sing Something Simple had already celebrated its 1000th programme. With it's close in December 2001, there had been over 2,100 shows broadcast on BBC Radio. Easy Beat (1959-1967) This Sunday mid-morning pop music show was launched in 1959. Originally produced and compered by Brian Matthew, the show regularly featured Kenny Ball s Jazzmen, the Johnny Howard Band, Laura Lee, Tony Steven, Danny Street, guest artistes and BBC top tunes. It was later Introduced by Keith Fordyce. When Radio 1 was launched in 1967, the show remained for a few months under the new title Happening Sunday.

Enchanted_Evenings (1964/5) A Sunday afternoon hour of music from stage and screen introduced by Bruce Trent. Pick of the Pops (1955-1972) This famous name chart show began as a pop record segment during late Saturday night music shows. First presenter was Franklin Englemann, closely followed by Alan Dell, David Jacobs, Don Moss. In 1962 a Top Ten was introduced when the show was moved to Sunday afternoons with Alan Freeman (pictured left). The programme was renamed Top 20 when Alan left the show in 1972, but the original name was resurrected in 1989 when he recalled charts gone by on Radio 2. Semprini Serenade (1957-1982) `Old ones, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones' - Alberto Semprini's opening lines to his weekday evening programme which ran for 25 years. Albert Semprini was of Italian descent born in Bath. He studied both Piano and Cello and was to graduate from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1928 as an expert concert pianist composer and conductor.

In 1957 the Semprini Serenade series was aired with arrangements of old and new songs, light classics and themes from films and shows were exceedingly popular. The show was well received and well loved by his audience it ran for 25 years and over 700 programmes. Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959-2007) Sunday evening classic music show broadcast on Sunday evenings. The show was created and presented by Alan Keith until his death in 2003. Friday Night is Music Night (1952- date) Friday night has, in fact, been music night for half a century, first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2, making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. It features the famously versatile BBC Concert Orchestra, and is frequently broadcast from theatres and concert halls throughout the UK. The BBC Concert Orchestra, which was formed in 1952, has a wide and flexible repertoire, ranging from classical works and grand opera to light music and popular songs.

Its Principal Conductors over the years have been Gilbert Vinter, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vilem Tausky, Marcus Dods, Ashley Lawrence and, since 1989, Barry Wordsworth. Workers Playtime (1957-1964) was a live morale-boosting music, comedy and variety show. The show was broadcast weekday lunchtimes from different factory canteens and ran for 23 years. Originally broadcast on the Home Service in 1941, it transferred to the Light in 1957. The producer was Bill Gates who would finish each programme by wishing "good luck to all workers!." Not forgetting... Glamorous Nights, Night Ride presented by John Curle, Album Time with Brian Matthew, Ballroom music requests with Victor Sylvester and his Orchestra, Make Way for Music from Manchester with Roger Moffatt and the Northern Dance Orchestra. Links to other Light Programme shows heard can be found below. BBC Radio 2 Popmaster Quiz Book by Mark Young - issuu issuu Welcome! I n 1996, my daily mid-morning show on Radio 2 was given a refresh and some old features taken out and new ones substituted.

One of the ideas I wanted to include was a daily pop quiz so I invited my producer at the time, Colin Martin, and quiz setter and colleague Phil Swern, out to lunch to discuss a format that could work on a daily basis and after two bottles of rather expensive red wine, we had virtually developed the concept of PopMaster which, after a few dry runs, was introduced into the programme a few weeks later and has now become one the high spots of the morning with many thousands of listeners taking their tea break at 10.30 in order to catch the quiz. We have now asked more than 90,000 questions to more than 5,000 contestants since the inception of the quiz â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but despite that, current question setters Phil Swern and Neil Myners have come up with some new and even more intriguing head-scratchers for what I hope you will find to be an entertaining quiz book.

In 2013 I presented a live version of PopMaster in Manchester to raise money for the charity Children in Need that was filled to capacity and BBC Radio 2 decided to repeat the event in 2014 on a somewhat larger scale, and it is also hoped to take PopMaster on the road in 2015 to a live audience in selected towns across the UK. I hope you enjoy answering the questions posed and if you score well, then perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll apply to join me live one morning on Radio 2 as a contestant! Ken Bruce BBC Radio 2 About the authors Phil Swern Best regarded perhaps for building one of the biggest private record collections in the world, Phil in his own right in the Seventies achieved over a dozen entries into “The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles” as a record producer with acts such as The Pearls, R & J Stone, Blue Haze, Horace Faith and The Seashells. He wrote and produced Polly Brown’s American Top 20 hit ‘Up in a Puff of Smoke’ and has had his songs recorded by The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Duane Eddy and Manhattan Transfer.

In the mid-Eighties he collaborated as writer and performer on the highly successful quiz show for Capital Radio,“You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet”, which ran for several years in the Sunday lunchtime slot. In the Nineties, Capital took up another of Phil’s ideas, “The Vinyl Vaults”, which was broadcast live from his home, where listeners were invited to call up and request any chart record from the last 40 years. The challenge to Phil was to find the disc and have it playing live on air within 60 seconds. He was beaten by the public only twice in 26 weeks. Later, after Richard Park joined Capital as programme controller, Phil worked alongside him to help set up the Capital Gold Network, using his own record collection to get the station off the ground. By the early Nineties he was producing programmes for BBC’s Radio One, working with the late Roger Scott, as well as Alan Freeman’s “Pick of the Pops”, “Mike Read’s Round Table”and Bob Harris’s late-night show four evenings a week. For Classic FM, he wrote and devised a weekly quiz,“A Question of Classics”, presented by Mike Read with team captains Barry Took and Tony Slattery.

With Jeremy Beadle, he also devised and co-wrote Channel 4’s first music quiz show, “Pop the Question”, with Chris Tarrant and David Hamilton as team captains, the long-running BBC 1 quiz, “That’s Showbusiness”, hosted by Mike Smith, where he also worked alongside Kenny Everett and Gloria Hunniford. Phil has also had his share of success with media books including “The Sony Rock Review”, “Guinness Box Office Hits: No.1 Movie Hits in the UK”, “The Virgin Book of Film Records” and, more recently, “The Ultimate Book of Pop Trivia” for Robson-Chrysalis. He has set questions for “Mastermind” and “Name that Tune”, devised “Cannon and Ball’s Casino” for Yorkshire Television, written and devised “A Question of Classics” for Classic FM and produced BBC Radio documentaries about Elton John, the Eagles and Queen. He is still producing“Pick of the Pops”, now a regular Saturday lunchtime show on Radio 2, originally with Tony Blackburn as presenter.

For many years he worked alongside Bob Harris, who presents regular shows on the same network, and Phil now co-writes Ken Bruce’s daily pop quiz, “Pop Master”, again for the network. In November 2002, he co-produced a four-and-a-half-hour marathon, “Radio 2’s All Time Number Ones”, presented by Richard Allinson. He also currently compiles and produces Radio 2’s top Saturday morning radio show, “Sounds of the Sixties”, presented by Brian Matthew. Neil Myners Raised in a house filled with classical and brass band music, Neil’s love of pop and the charts kicked in when he bought his first single,‘Sylvia’by Focus, in 1973. From that point, almost all hispocketmoneywasspentbuying7”vinyl-LPsbeingthereserveofbirthdaysandChristmas (1974’s “Propaganda” by Sparks being the first). Music and radio dominated his teens, with Johnnie Walker’s Tuesday lunchtime chart countdown on Radio 1 being a weekly highlight.

Sporting a crafty ear-piece running up the lapel of his school blazer from the small transistor radio hidden in his pocket, he’d scribble down the chart on scraps of paper during the latter stages of a woodwork lesson and the interminable wait in the dinner queue that followed. Having studied music to degree and post-grad levels, Neil decided to pursue a career in his first love, music radio. He began as a sound engineer working across BBC networks andWorld Servicebeforemovingintocommercialproductionwithacompanymakingaward-winning programmesforVirginAtlantic,Emiratesandotherinternationalairlines.Highlightsofhistime hereincludedbothavisittoandaprogrammeaboutPrince’sPaisleyParkstudios,lunchunder armed guard at a private club in Bucharest and witnessing a Malaysian Simon & Garfunkel tribute act in an underground bar in Singapore! Since1995,he’sbeenafreelanceradioproducer,musicresearcherandwriter.Hisprogrammes have been heard on BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6Music - and he has worked for a number of independent production companies in both the UK and America.

Over the years Neil has produced BBC Radio 2’s coverage of Paul McCartney’s return to the Cavern, the BRIT Awards and the Ivor Novello Awards. He was both music programmer and produceronRichardAllinson’sSony-award-winninglate-nightshowforthenetworkandhas similarly been recognised for his work with Bob Harris and Bob’s company WBBC on the documentaries “The Sandy Denny Story” and “The Day John Met Paul”. Neil was also series editor for the 16-part “Old Grey Whistle Test 40” in 2011 - WBBC’s 40th anniversary radio celebrationoftheclassicTVshow-featuring70guestsandnearly40newlyrecordedsessions. Other work has included both Shaun Keaveny and Gideon Coe’s shows on BBC 6Music, nine series of “Their Greatest Bits” (a popular classics show with Alan Freeman), the Cambridge Folk Festival, “Without Frontiers”with Charlie Gillett, several documentaries and writing CD sleeve notes, including compiling and writing an album on the productions ofTonyVisconti. More recently Neil has gone back to his roots, producing“Sunday Morning”on BBC Radio 3.

He continues to write and co-produce the acclaimed“Record Producers”programmes with Steve Levine and Richard Allinson. He has written Ken Bruce’s daily pop quiz,“Pop Master”, since 2003, and between 2002 and 2004 co-produced a number of radio specials with Phil Swern including the four-and-a-halfhour marathon, “Radio 2’s All Time Number Ones”. ans w ers a important The answers to all questions are cunningly printed on the outside column of the page directly after the quiz page you’re looking at. The answers are therefore always two pages after the quiz – so the answers to this quiz are on page 10. (Stop! Don’t turn and look until you’ve done the quiz – they are there, we promise you!) Quiz 001 Popmaster THE 2 TONE ERA Questions on the bands and artists from the 2Tone and ska-revival era of the late Seventies and early Eighties QUESTION 1 The Specials had their first hit with the song Gangsters – but under what name did they release this song?

QUESTION 2 Bad Manners had a Top three instrumental hit in 1981 with a ska-flavoured version of which music hall dance? QUESTION 3 Who was the female singer with The Selecter? QUESTION 4 The first and last Top 40 hits by The Beat were both cover versions – name either of them. QUESTION 5 ...and after the break-up of The Beat, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger went on to form which group? QUESTION 6 The 1979 chart debut by Madness was the band’s only hit on the 2 Tone label – what was it called? QUESTION 7 The 1980 single ‘Let’s Do Rock Steady’ was the title of the only Top 40 hit for an all-female group on the 2 Tone label – what were they called? QUESTION 8 Bad Manners’ final Top 10 single in 1982 was a retitled version of song that had been a hit for Millie in 1964 – what was it called? QUESTION 9 Having split from The Specials, Terry Hall formed Fun Boy Three with two other former band members – name one of them.

QUESTION 10 Elvis Costello and the Attractions only single for 2 Tone was due for release in 1980 but couldn’t be sold due to an injunction, but it became their first hit single for F-Beat that same year. What was it called? 8 Questions about the most influential chart in the world – the American Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 QUESTION 1 Simple Minds had their biggest American hit when they had a 1985 number one song from the film ‘The Breakfast Club’ – what was it called? QUESTION 2 The albums ‘Late Registration’, ‘Graduation’, ‘808s & Heartbreak’, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ and ‘Yeezus’ have all been American number one albums in the 21st century for which artist? QUESTION 3 Which 1984 album by Prince and the Revolution spent a total of 24 weeks at number one on the American albums chart? QUESTION 4 America’s first number one of the 1970s was ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head’ – but this four week chart topper wasn’t sung by Sacha Distel who had the main UK hit.

Who recorded it? QUESTION 5 Which Black Eyed Peas song was the first to top 8 million downloads in the USA? a s wer ans Popmaster Quiz 002 ACROSS THE POND important The answers to all questions are cunningly printed on the outside column of the page directly after the quiz page you’re looking at. The answers are therefore always two pages after the quiz – so the answers to this quiz are on page 11. (Stop! Don’t turn and look until you’ve done the quiz – they are there, we promise you!) QUESTION 6 …and which British artist became the second in 2013, with a song she released over two years earlier? Name both artist and song. QUESTION 7 The band Fun. spent six weeks at number one in America in 2012 with the song ‘We Are Young’, but which female singer also features on the song? QUESTION 8 KC & The Sunshine Band had five American number ones during their chart career – ‘That’s The Way (I Like It)’ was one of them, but their UK number one ‘Give It Up’ wasn’t. Name one of their four other number ones.

QUESTION 9 When it was released in 1995, a song called ‘Missing’ by an English duo became what was, at the time, the longest-charting record in America, notching up 55 weeks – which duo recorded it? QUESTION 10 Name both the British group and the album that has spent the most number of weeks on the American albums chart 9 ‘I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down’ 10 ‘Martha’s Harbour’ was the only Top 10 hit for which group? What ‘Drive’ did the Lighthouse Family sing about in the mid-Nineties? QUESTION 6 ‘Sail On Sailor’ was the opening track on the 1973 album, ‘Holland’, recorded by which successful American group? QUESTION 7 Released in 1974, what was the title of the first and biggest hit for The Hues Corporation? QUESTION 8 The songs ‘Silence Is Easy’, ‘Alcoholic’, ‘Good Souls’, ‘Four To The Floor’ and ‘Fever’ were all hits in the Noughties for which group?

QUESTION 9 In 1977, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot reached the chart with a song about a shipping disaster in 1975 – what was it called? QUESTION 10 Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe were the duo that had a hit in 1983 called ‘Waves’ – under what name did they record this song? s wer ans Popmaster Quiz 004 ALL CREATURES GREAT and SMALL QUIZ 002 From 1981, which group achieved their first number one single with ‘Stand And Deliver’? B.J. Thomas QUESTION 5 Q5 Who had a top five hit in 2014 with the song ‘Dark Horse’ featuring Juicy J? QUESTION 6 In 1987, which group found a ‘Rat In Mi Kitchen?’ QUESTION 7 Can you name the group that achieved a top five hit in 1991 with ‘The Size Of A Cow’? QUESTION 8 Which group of singers accompanied Paul McCartney on his 1984 Top 10 hit ‘We All Stand Together’?

QUESTION 9 Can you name the performer who made the Top 20 in 2013 with a song called ‘Wings’? QUESTION 10 What was the name of the legendary soul singer who achieved his only UK hit in 1970 with ‘The Funky Chicken’? ‘I Gotta Feeling’ Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’ Q7 Janelle Monáe Q8 ’Get Down Tonight (‘Shake, Shake, Shake’) ‘Shake Your Booty’, ‘I’m Your Boogie Man’, ‘Please Don’t Go’ Q9 Everything But The Girl (reached its peak of No.2 in its 28th week on chart Q10 Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon (had topped 800 weeks at time of publication) 11 ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Q10 12 QUESTION 1 What was the title of The Village People’s Top three follow-up to their number one ‘Y.M.C.A’?

QUESTION 2 ‘Soldier’ was the title of a Top five single in 2005 for an American female vocal group that featured guest appearances by TI and Lil Wayne – name the female group QUESTION 3 What was the title of the love theme from the film ‘Top Gun’ and which group recorded it? QUESTION 4 Which singer’s first Top 10 single was her 1995 hit “Army Of Me”? QUESTION 5 Name the 2002 number one by Sugababes that samples a portion of Tubeway Army’s 1979 number one ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric’? QUESTION 6 The group Pilot had four hit singles – the number one song ‘January’ was one, name one of the other three? QUESTION 7 Which male singer had a Top 10 cover version of The White Stripe’s ‘7 Nation Army’ in 2012? QUESTION 8 ‘Sailing’ by Rod Stewart reached number one in 1975 but was a Top three hit again in 1976 when it was used as the theme song to a BBC documentary series about life on board which naval ship?

QUESTION 9 Name the drummer with Nirvana who formed the band Foo Fighters in 1994? QUESTION 10 ‘Oliver’s Army’ was a Top three single for Elvis Costello and the Attractions in 1979 – but what was the title of the Top three album from which it was taken? s wer ans Popmaster Quiz 006 AROUND THE WORLD QUIZ 004 Who had a number one hit in 2013 with a song called ‘Roar’? QUESTION 2 What was the name of the German rock band that scored a top five hit in 1991 with ‘Wind of Change’? QUESTION 3 Which Welsh singer-songwriter achieved his only UK top forty hit in 1992 with ‘Dolphins Make Me Cry’? QUESTION 4 Can you name the group that achieved Top 20 hits in the Eighties with ‘Digging Your Scene’ and ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be this Way’? QUESTION 5 With which successful Californian band were Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner both members?

QUESTION 6 Which American group had their one and only Top 20 hit in 1968 with ‘Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’? QUESTION 7 Which musician wrote and produced all of the hit singles by The Wombles? QUESTION 8 What was the name of the French singer who achieved his only UK hit single in 1971 with ‘Butterfly’? QUESTION 9 In 1959, Neil Sedaka achieved his first UK Top 10 hit. Can you name it? QUESTION 10 What was the title of the 1984 top five hit by Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus? s wer ans Popmaster Quiz 008 AT THE ZOO (2) QUIZ 006 Which group topped the chart for three weeks in 1966 with ‘Pretty Flamingo’? Siouxsie & The Banshees QUESTION 2 Q2 What’s the name of the rock band that achieved Top 10 hits with ‘Animal’, ‘Let’s Get Rocked’ and ‘When Love and Hate Collide’?

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Question: Who has presented the BBC Radio 2 programme Sounds of the Sixties for over 20 years?
Answer: Brian Matthew